Michel TrianaFounder

United States - Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

👉 THE SHORT VERSION ⬇️
I am in the business of Money. Both in making it and in building the products and software that makes it move.

My specialties are:
1. Finance and investment product development.
2. Distributed and decentralized systems and software engineering
3. Bitcoin, Crypto, Blockchain, DeFi, Web3

I have over 15 years in the business of enterprise software, startups, banking, payments, and crypto. I've served in executive and technical leadership roles for Fortune 500 companies, as well as co-founded five tech startups with two successful exits on my shoulders. Somewhere in-between, I also delved into being a VC and helped run two funds as a GP.

👉 THE LONG VERSION ⬇️
Chief Executive and Cofounder of Mean DAO, makers of the Mean Protocol, the most efficient Liquidity Aggregator and Money Streaming Protocol in the Solana Blockchain. The Mean Protocol also powers MeanFi, a self-custody, permissionless, and trustless bank that brings Crypto and DeFi to everyday banking.

I previously served as the co-founder and CEO of Realdax, a B2B SaaS company providing Real Estate Investment Analytics for brokers and investors, and enabling real estate transaction settlement with different cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, Dash and XMR) in the US, LATAM and China.

As a passionate product and software maker, the things I build must have a purpose and a good one. I'm a pragmatic businessman, a scientist, and a professional wrestler of world-scale problems. There's no time to spare and no dull moment in my life: I like to squeeze the orange all the way.

Some things I’m good at:
- Inspiring people, team building, educating, and teaching. I'm a life-long learner and educator.
- Defining new products and experiences. From concept to execution, I'm behind the wheel with a keen eye for aesthetics at a pixel-perfect level of detail.
- Produce and drive IT strategy, product development, planning, and advice.

Things I suck at:
- Playing almost any sport.
- Making jokes other people get.
- Unjustified bureaucracy.

Areas of interest:
- Payment systems, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, DeFi, distributed & decentralized computing.
- Data Science, Machine Learning, NLP, KB Systems, HCI, and Data Representation.
- Application Architecture, Interface Design, Security, Systems Integrations, and APIs.

👉 NOTE: The shortest path to never hearing from me, is to send me a connection invite with the generic LinkedIn message. If you need further explanation, save yourself the click.